The title leak describes the leakage between things including time: past, present, future.

For her series leak, Rosemary Laing built an oversized domestic timber house frame
on a sheep farm in the Cooma-Monaro district of New South Wales. The frame appears to have somehow
fallen upside-down on a mound of gum trees in a paddock, a kind of visual collision between the
idea of a pastoral idyllic past and present-day urban infection.

The title leak describes the leakage between things including time: past, present, future;
the way images speak to one thing and another, with each impacting on the other; how the past
landscape pastoral idyll can be crossed with a present very broadly put suburban-to-global leakage;
and how actions have the potential to leak outside of an act itself – or in a way that
everything leaks everywhere.

ROSEMARY LAING
after Heysen from the series to walk on a sea of salt, 2004
C type photograph
dimensions 110 x 252 cm (image)
Collection of The Australian Club, Melbourne
Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne